Wolverhampton Wanderers held Everton to a goalless draw at the Molineux Stadium on Sunday in their last home game of the season, after a http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nikica-Jelavic-c27906 goal was wrongly ruled out by the match referee.
In the process, Terry Connor’s side also avoided suffering a record 14th home defeat in the season and their tenth in a row.
The match was also marred by a moment of controversy, as the linesman wrongly adjudicated Jelavic to be in an off-side position, after the Croatian footballer had dispatched the ball into the back of the net.
The draw kept Everton at the seventh place in the league table and allowed them to open up a four points lead over their Merseyside rivals, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786.
On the other hand, a defeat for the Wolves was inconsequential, as they have already been relegated from the Premier League next season.
The game got off to a slow start with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Tim-Cahill-c35085 and Jelavic had the early opportunities for the visitors, but both the players failed to hit the target with their efforts.
The first attempt from Wolves came in the 26th minute, when Stephen Hunt’s cross from a free-kick found Christophe Berra inside the area, who headed the ball well over the goal post.
Jelavic was then thwarted by a moment of misfortune, as he slotted the ball past the Wolves keeper, but was denied by a poor refereeing decision as the linesman flagged him off-side, with the replays suggesting otherwise.
Even though the hosts started the second half brightly, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Tony-Hibbert-c35447 cross, but skied his effort over the crossbar.
Dorus De Vries then made a spectacular save to prevent Jelavic from scoring, who fired a stinging free-kick from 25 yards out to the left of the Netherland International.
The Croat then picked up a long ball in the 72nd minute to go through on goal but dragged his shot off target when he should have done better.
Moments later, the visitors netted the ball for the second time in the evening, after a cross from Jelavic was nudged in by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Denis-Stracqualursi-c10885. However, like before the goal was ruled out by the match official as Fellaini was caught in an off-side position.
The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wolves-c40952 then weathered a late onslaught from the Toffees to record their second consecutive draw in the league, and broke their sequence of nine successive home defeats.
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